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Thank you for your support and following me this amazing journey I am on. I am more than a little excited to share some news…..

…..I’d like to invite you all to check out my new website. It’s still undergoing some tweaking but going forward this is where I am posting my new recipes, and as such there will be no more posted on this blog as everything is transitioned over.

These were the second batch of cookies we made on Sunday. I’ve had my eye on a cranberry/chocolate combo cookie for a while. After scouring the internet in search of the perfect cookie…I ended up utilizing a couple different recipes for the basics and adding/making changes to suit my needs. So here it is, our version of an Oatmeal Cranberry Double Chocolate Cookie. Not too sweet, but enough chocolate to keep you happy!

Tip: You can use both kinds of chocolate as we did or use straight semi-sweet chocolate chips or just chopped white chocolate chunks. Choice is yours!

I remember watching Jamie Oliver when he was the Naked Chef. To me he looked too young to be an accomplished Chef but I was still intrigued and little did I know how good he was. Over the years I have followed him and all his new endeavours. I love his style of cooking and honestly can not get enough of him.

He has created a Christmas 2011 website full of all kinds of fun stuff and lots of recipes!

After finding some of the produce in my fridge dying a slow death, I pulled out some recipe books looking for some inspiration. A large head of Napa Cabbage was crying to be used as were some lemons so I decided to make Lemony Coleslaw…and Lemony it was. I couldn’t figure out how this dressing was going to come together, taste good and fool my husband (who loathes sour cream). But it did and he had seconds without knowing the star ingredient – mission accomplished!

As I evolve the recipe blog it may become something more than just recipes. As is this post. A Live Polar Bear Cam in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. It’s just lovely watching these majestic beauties who are on the endangered species list. Enjoy.

I get asked about this a lot by my mom friends…not many people have heard about the Halloween Fairy and were wishing they had. Bottom line is all the moms are up to their eye balls in candy and want a way to get rid of it. Do my kids need more toys, no…but we’d rather them have another toy then sickly amounts of candy that eventually gets thrown out.

And so the story goes…..

The Halloween FairyWe started the Halloween Fairy about 3 years ago as a means to control the excessive amount of candy that comes our way after a week of Halloween parties and trick or treating. I am waiting for my daughter to come back with “is the Halloween Fairy (HF) really real?” For now she still buys into it and so we tell them the HF takes the candy (and the pumpkin) to the kids that do not get any candy. Her response this time was “you mean charity?”. She got it! We were so proud of her…she put more than half her candy into the HF pumpkin. Brought tears to our eyes! Even wanted to leave HF a note thanking her for taking the candy to the kids!! They both still have enough candy to last them awhile and they received a little gift from HF (book and a car). We hope one day when they realize there is no HF they will still want to continue to donate some of their candy to kids/families less fortunate.

Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy…what’s one more?!!

If you want to find a way to get rid of excess or leftover candy…contact your local Food Bank or affiliate!